Reality Checks: Crafting and Math, Pre-Existing Conditions, Zinc vs Lithium Ions, and Feminist Babysitter’s Club

Elizabeth — May 4, 2017

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The feminist legacy of the Babysitter’s Club (via New Yorker)
According to some lawmakers (who get federal healthcare) if you have a pre-existing condition, it’s your fault. (via nymag)
Trying zinc rather than lithium ions for batteries. (via Ars Technica)
Knitting and crocheting to math skills. (via brightreads)

Featured image credit: Katrina Br*?#*[email protected] via flickr

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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Reality Checks: Crafting and Math, Pre-Existing Conditions, Zinc vs Lithium Ions, and Feminist Babysitter’s Club

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Reality Checks: Illegal Laughing, Cutting Ties with the Girl Scouts, Choking Seas, and Losing a Pyramid

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